On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 1:57 PM Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com> wrote: > > * VACUUM VERBOSE doesn't provide much of the most useful > > instrumentation that we have available in log_autovacuum_min_duration, > > and yet produces output that is ludicrously, unmanageably verbose -- > > lots of pg_rusage_show() information for each and every step, which > > just isn't useful. > > Not only not useful/unhelpful, but confusing.
Also makes testing harder. > It's what I complained about here. > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20191220171132.gb30...@telsasoft.com > > I see that lazy_scan_heap() still has a shadow variable buf... I noticed that myself. That function has had many accretions of code, over decades. I often notice things that seem like they once made sense (e.g., before we had HOT), but don't anymore. I hope to be able to pay down more technical debt in this area for Postgres 15. -- Peter Geoghegan
